Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• Life … tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

  ~ Richard M. DeVos quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Devo, Life, Expect

• Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

  ~ Sir Henry Wooton quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love

• You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

  ~ Anne Lamott quotes from Bird By Bird

  Motivational Quotes on: God, Create, People

• A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Water, Power, Mind, Doing, Nature, Fall, Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind

• Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

  ~ Ken Wilber quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Ken Wilber, New, Good, Progress, Bad

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